Same ideas expressed in Fitter, Happier are expressed in this song. We're told to strive for some sort of ideal life, which includes getting a good job, being kind to everyone, finding a partner, getting married, having a couple kids, living in a quiet neighborhood in a nice big house, etc. But in Fitter, Happier the narrator(?) realizes that it's incredibly robotic to live this life. People are being used by those in power "like a pig in a cage on antibiotics"--being pacified with things like new phones and cool gadgets and houses while being sucked dry. On No Surprises, the narrator is realizing how this life is killing him slowly. In the video, his helmet is slowly filling up with water, drowning him. But he's so complacent with it. This is a good summary of the song. This boring, "perfect" life foisted upon us by some higher powers (not spiritual, but political, economic, etc. politicians and businessmen, perhaps) is not the way to live. But there is seemingly no way out but death. He'd rather die peacefully right now than live in this cage. While our lives are often shielded, we're in our own protective bubbles, or protective helmets like the one Thom wears, if we look a little harder we can see all the corruption, lies, manipulation, etc. that is going on in the world, often run by huge yet nearly invisible organizations, corporations, and 'leaders'. It's a very hopeless song because it reflects real life.
You in trouble baby, you in trouble
And you gonna get it open up your eyes
Come here, your gonna get it
Baby come in here, lay right there
Gonna touch your body everywhere
You moaning and shaking baby
I like that yeah
Telling me to go harder with
Your legs in the air
Oh yeah, right now girl it's about you, oh
You yeah, I'm going down, down baby on you
Oh i'mma do it here, I'mma do it there
I'mma do it like this
I'mma do it like that baby
Baby this is how it's gonna go go go
When, when we make love
I'mma go fast, I'mma go slow
I'mma go so hard girl you gon' say ‘oooh'
Baby this is how it's gonna go go go go
When, when we make love
Baby I know you're ready, ready
Because you're about to get it
(Like you in trouble)
You're about to get it
(Like you in trouble)
Girl I hope you know that
Know that, you're about to get it
(Like you in trouble)
You're about to get it
(Like you in trouble)
I'mma give it to you like oh my god
Tell me how you want it I'mma do it all
If you wanna release baby
I'll fight that there
Its gon feel so good you
Gon pull your own hair
She in trouble
Had to slide right up under her
Had to be the only reason I would punish her
Tried to avoid it
Had her girlfriends come with her
But they gon wait up in that living
Room till I'm done with her
They gon sit tight baby no interruptions
While I'm knocking down her walls
Like they under construction
French on her nails with
Her hair done beautifully
And what the fuck you thought them boy
Shorts was gonna do to me?
Face like Megan little thicker than Hale
Had me up all night as
If my dick's into molly
I know that our endeavor was fun
Cause she stored me in her phone
As he can have it whenever he wants
And you gonna get it open up your eyes
Come here, your gonna get it
Baby come in here, lay right there
Gonna touch your body everywhere
You moaning and shaking baby
I like that yeah
Telling me to go harder with
Your legs in the air
Oh yeah, right now girl it's about you, oh
You yeah, I'm going down, down baby on you
Oh i'mma do it here, I'mma do it there
I'mma do it like this
I'mma do it like that baby
Baby this is how it's gonna go go go
When, when we make love
I'mma go fast, I'mma go slow
I'mma go so hard girl you gon' say ‘oooh'
Baby this is how it's gonna go go go go
When, when we make love
Baby I know you're ready, ready
Because you're about to get it
(Like you in trouble)
You're about to get it
(Like you in trouble)
Girl I hope you know that
Know that, you're about to get it
(Like you in trouble)
You're about to get it
(Like you in trouble)
I'mma give it to you like oh my god
Tell me how you want it I'mma do it all
If you wanna release baby
I'll fight that there
Its gon feel so good you
Gon pull your own hair
She in trouble
Had to slide right up under her
Had to be the only reason I would punish her
Tried to avoid it
Had her girlfriends come with her
But they gon wait up in that living
Room till I'm done with her
They gon sit tight baby no interruptions
While I'm knocking down her walls
Like they under construction
French on her nails with
Her hair done beautifully
And what the fuck you thought them boy
Shorts was gonna do to me?
Face like Megan little thicker than Hale
Had me up all night as
If my dick's into molly
I know that our endeavor was fun
Cause she stored me in her phone
As he can have it whenever he wants
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